Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: A global experiment

GQ Romero, T Gonçalves‐Souza, T Roslin… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current climate change is disrupting biotic interactions and eroding biodiversity worldwide.
However, species sensitive to aridity, high temperatures, and climate variability might find …

Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group

PM Martins, R Poulin… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A robust understanding of what drives parasite β-diversity is an essential step towards
explaining what limits pathogens' geographical spread. We used a novel global dataset …

Modeling the geographical distributions of Chordodes formosanus and its mantis hosts in Taiwan, with considerations for their niche overlaps

M De Vivo, JP Huang - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) have conventionally been used for evaluating the
distribution of individual species, but they can also be used, through comparing different …

Where traditional extinction estimates fall flat: using novel cophylogenetic methods to estimate extinction risk in platyhelminths

LPA Mulvey, RCM Warnock… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Today parasites comprise a huge proportion of living biodiversity and play a major role in
shaping community structure. Given their ecological significance, parasite extinctions could …

Ecological factors driving the feather mite associations in tropical avian hosts

KH Bodawatta, I Shriner, S Pigott… - Journal of Avian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Birds host a diversity of ectosymbionts including feather‐dwelling arthropods such as feather
mites and lice that they have co‐evolved and speciated with. Among these ectosymbionts …

Transferência horizontal, distribuição geográfica, e especiação em ácaros de penas no Brasil (Astigmata)

LGA Pedroso - 2022 - repositorio.unesp.br
The specificity is a crucial aspect ruling host-symbiont interactions. It is usually linked to the
symbiont's transmission potential, adaptation plasticity, and availability of compatible hosts …

[PDF][PDF] HORIZONTAL TRANSFER, GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND SPECIATION IN FEATHER MITES IN BRAZIL (ASTIGMATA)

LGDEA PEDROSO - repositorio.unesp.br
RESUMO A especificidade é um aspecto crucial que governa as interações entre
simbiontes e hospedeiros. Geralmente a especificidade está ligada ao potencial de …

Macroecologia de parasitos: como espaço, clima e hospedeiros determinam a diversidade de helmintos em amplas escalas espaciais

PM MARTINS SOBRINHO - 2021 - bdtd.ibict.br
One of the goals of macroecology and biogeography as scientific endeavours is to discover
general principles that govern biological diversity regardless of biological group or the …